Abba Kyari knocks FG over poor police salary, funding (Guardian)

An assistant commissioner of police and head of the Nigerian Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Abba Kyari has decried the poor funding of the force.

Kyari, famous for leading the team that arrested the alleged notorious kidnapper Chukwudi Onuamadike, aka Evans, said Nigerian police officers were poorly paid and only have access to “less than 20 per cent” of what they need to operate properly.

“Google and read about the funding of Nigeria Police and salaries, we physically get less than 20 per cent of what we need to operate properly,” Kyari said in the comment section of a Facebook post he put up to mourn the death of a police sergeant who was killed by kidnappers. Read more